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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 April 1927, Page 9

of .six native- policemen! at Guadaleanar Island, in the Solomons group, is not a very serious occurrence, expressed by Dr. Northcote Deck, of the South Seas Evangelical Mission, was supported in Auckland by the Rev. C. L. Mountfort, of tire Melanesian Mission. According to the “New Zealand Herald,” Mr. Mountfort said that although the island had earned a .somewhat evil reputation, the people there were quite safe in their homes. The policemen had evidently offended the natives in some way, and the tribe had taken vengeance without thought of the consequences. Although he did not doubt that there had been a massacre, he said it should he understood that the native word for “kill”, was the same as for “hit,” and, because of this, confusion often arose. The commissioner at island would be forced to take action, and natives who actually had a hand in the massacre would probably he executed.